- Bezold, Wilhelm von. The Theory of Color in Its Relation to Art and Art-Industry. Translated by Sylvester Rosa Koehler. Boston: Louis Prang & Co., 1876.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, Charles C. Perkins, and William C. Prime, eds. The American Art Review: A Journal Devoted to the Practice, Theory, History, and Archaeology of Art. 2 vols. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1880–1881.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. “Second Annual Exhibition of the Philadelphia Society of Artists (Opened November 1. Closed December 6).” The American Art Review 2, no. 3 (January 1881): 103–115.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Exhibition of American Etchings. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1881. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 11–May 9, 1881.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. Art Education and Art Patronage in the United States. Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Co., 1882.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. The United States Art Directory and Year-Book: A Guide for Artists, Art Students, Travellers, etc. vol. 1. New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. The United States Art Directory and Year-Book: A Guide for Artists, Art Students, Travellers, etc. vol. 2. New York: Cassell & Co., 1884.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. Etching: An Outline of Its Technical Processes and Its History. New York: Cassell & Co., 1885.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. American Art: Illustrated by Twenty-Five Plates. New York: Cassell & Co., 1886.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Exhibition of the Etched Work of Rembrandt, and of Artists of His Circle. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1887. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 26–June 30, 1887.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Exhibition of the Work of the Women Etchers of America. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1887. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 1–December 31, 1887.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Catalogue of the Contributions of the Section of Graphic Arts to the Ohio Valley Centennial Exposition, Cincinnati, 1888. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1888. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Ohio Valley Centennial Exposition, Cincinnati, July 4–October 27, 1888.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Exhibition of Albert Dürer’s Engravings, Etchings, and Dry-Points, and of Most of the Woodcuts Executed from His Designs. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1888. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 15, 1888–January 15, 1889.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. “A Stroll through the Peabody Museum at Cambridge, Massachusetts–I and II.” The Magazine of Art 12 (November 1888–October 1889): 393–396, 404–411.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. “A Stroll through the Peabody Museum at Cambridge, Massachusetts (Conclusion).” The Magazine of Art 13 (November 1889–October 1890): 47–51.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. Frederick Juengling. Roxbury, NY: n.p., 1890.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Exhibition of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1890. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 2–November 30, 1890.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Exhibition of Books, Water Colors, Engravings, Etc. by William Blake. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1891. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 7–March 15, 1891.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Catalogue of the Engraved and Lithographed Work of John Cheney and Seth Wells Cheney. Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1891.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Exhibition Illustrating the Technical Methods of the Reproductive Arts from the XV. Century to the Present Time, With Special Reference to the Photo-Mechanical Processes. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1892. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 8–March 6, 1892.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. White-Line Engraving for Relief-Printing in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1892.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. “The Photomechanical Processes.” Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts 5, no. 3 (October 1892): 161–204.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Exhibition of the Works of John Cheney and Seth Wells Cheney. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1893. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 20–March 5, 1893.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Catalogue of a Selection of Prints, Arranged Chronologically to Illustrate the Various Processes of Engraving Invented from the 15 to the End of the 18th Century. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1893. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 25, 1893–May 20, 1894.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Exhibition of the Works of Adolph Menzel. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1894. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 1–November 9, 1894.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. Catalogue of a Collection of Etchings, Dry-Points and Mezzotints, by Francis Seymour Hayden. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1896. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 26–May 17, 1896.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, ed. A Chronological Catalogue of the Engravings, Dry-Points and Etchings of Albert Dürer as Exhibited at the Grolier Club. New York: Grolier Club, 1897. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Grolier Club of New York, January 29–March 13, 1897.
- Koehler, Sylvester Rosa, Hedwig J. Koehler, the Club of Odd Volumes, and Charles Dexter Allen, eds. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Book-Plates and Super-Libros Held by the Club of Odd Volumes. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1898. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 25–June 5, 1898.
- Lalanne, Maxime. A Treatise on Etching. Translated by Sylvester Rosa Koehler. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1880.
- Langl, Joseph. Modern Art Education: Its Practical and Aesthetic Character Educationally Considered. Translated by Sylvester Rosa Koehler. Boston: Louis Prang & Co., 1875.
- Wilmot-Buxton, Harry John, and Sylvester Rosa Koehler. English Painters by H. J. Wilmot-Buxton, M. A. with a Chapter on American Painters by S. R. Koehler. Illustrated Handbooks of Art History of All Ages. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883.